Construction worker recovering after accident at Children's

11:34 AM,
Apr. 25, 2013

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A construction worker is recovering at University of Cincinnati Medical Center after he was injured on the job this morning about a block away at a new building at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

A carpenter for Messer Construction was in a 20-foot ditch about 8:20 a.m. when he was hit with a piece of scaffolding hand rail that broke free, said Jessie Folmar, a Messer spokeswoman.

No one else was injured, and construction resumed on Children's new, 15-story facility on its Burnet Avenue campus in Avondale, she said. ...